METHODS OF PRINTING TEXTILES | FOOD SCIENCE & NUTRITION | L-22|

Textile Printing Methods:

There are five main methods of printing a fabric, these being the block, roller, screen, heat transfer and ink-jet methods. The heat transfer method differs from the others in that it involves the transfer of color from the design printed on paper through the vapor phase into the fibers of the fabric. With the other methods the dye or pigment is applied to the fabric surface through a print paste medium.

Following methods can be used for printing of a fabric:

Block Printing

Roller Printing

Screen Printing

Flat Screen Printing

Rotary Screen Printing

Transfer Printing

Ink-Jet Printing

Carpet Printing

Jet spray printing

Warp Printing

Resist Printing

Electrostatic Printing

Photographic Printing

Photo Printing

Pigment Printing

Blotch Printing

Non-fabric printing

Burn-Out Printing

Flock printing

Direct Printing

Discharge Printing

Duplex Printing

Stencil printing

Two-phase printing

All over printing

Special printing methods:

Space dyeing

Kalamkari

Batik printing

Tie dyeing and so on.

Above printing methods are described briefly: